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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017

Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...

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From the cradle to the labor market? : The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Black, Sandra E. (contributor); … - 2005

of children from poorer families. -- birth weight ; twins ; education ; IQ ; earnings …

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Care or cash? : the effect of child care subsidies on student performance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Løken, Katrine V.; … - 2012

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

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A flying start? : maternity leave benefits and long run outcomes of children

Carneiro, Pedro; Løken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2011

We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of … unpaid leave. -- maternity leave ; children’s outcomes …

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A second chance? : labor market returns to adult education using school reforms

Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard W.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020

Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data, and for identification we exploit reforms enabling access to high...

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Math matters! : the importance of mathematical and verbal skills for degree performance

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019

We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are particularly predictive of achieving a first-class honours...

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Measuring heterogeneity in the returns to education in Norway using educational reforms

Aakvik, Arild (contributor); Salvanes, Kjell G. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Life-cycle bias and the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings

Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2011

This paper uses a unique data set with nearly career-long earnings histories to provide evidence on the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings. We use these results to assess the importance of life-cycle bias in earnings regressions using current earnings as a proxy for lifetime...

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Life cycle earnings, education premiums and internal rates of return

Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

internal rate of return of around 10 percent, after taking into account income taxes and earnings-related pension entitlements …

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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain

Devereux, Paul J. (contributor); Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2008

Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments …

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